A firsthand memoir by a White Army commander recounting the final years of the Russian Civil War, focusing on military campaigns in the south, the defence and evacuation of Crimea, and the moral and practical dilemmas faced by anti-Bolshevik officers; it mixes operational detail—troop movements, strategy, and relations with Allied powers—with personal reflection on leadership, duty, and the tragedy of defeat and exile, while offering assessments of what went wrong for the White cause and a portrait of the ruined homeland left behind.